#anti seth rogen

[wolfieloveswade]

can someone please legally remove seth rogan as one of the producers for The Boys? if not, I will remove his head from his body

[that-theaven]

Yes the whole April was originally Black thing is more easily debunked than than the Hermione controversy. That being said that doesn't put Seth Rogen for whitewashing Bebop in the new movie either

[jellyfishinc]

Me: Alright, it's getting ridiculous in here. Everyone out! Everyone out! Come on!

*everyone starts to stand up*

Me: Not you, Charlie Day

Not you, Keegan Michael Key.

Not you, Anya Taylor-Joy.

Not you, Jack Black.

Not you, Yoshis.

Not you, Seth Rogan who still has said nothing.

Not you, Bowigi shippers making it look like the movie's actually gonna make your ship canon.

*Silence as everyone looks at Chris Pratt*

[bubblesbenson]

Here are my official thoughts on the Mario movie voice cast.

Obviously Chris Pratt is miscasted as Mario, but unlike the rest of you, I’m not going to bully, harass, or send death threats to him all because he’s voicing Mario and for being a Christian in a bad church.

(Again, if anyone has a problem with my defending Chris Pratt, you can block me now; I don’t need to see your negativity in my home page or my recommendations.)

Honestly, I genuinely don’t like Seth Rogen. I stopped liking him after Sausage Party. My parents thought it would have been a good Thanksgiving dinner movie to watch even though I was vocal about not wanting to watch it. But God forbid that I want to show my family and one of my friends an old movie like Stormy Weather (1943).

I don’t hate Keegan-Michael Key, but why in the world is he playing Toad? I thought a woman, Jen Taylor/Samantha Kelly, voiced Toad.

I thought it was weird that Jack Black is playing Bowser, and weird that Charlie Day is playing Luigi.

Charlie Day’s voice is too high-pitched to play Luigi while Charles Martinet had sort of a deeper voice for Luigi. Again, all love towards Charlie Day.

I think Anya Taylor-Joy could do a good job as Peach, though I think Jen Taylor was perfect as Princess Peach.

I have no idea who Sebastian Maniscalco is.

The only two people I would have kept as voice actors for the movie would be Fred Armisen, someone who has experience as a voice actor, and of course, Kevin Michael Richardson, a legendary voice actor.

I’ve been meaning to say all of this for a long time. The bullying of Chris Pratt that I witnessed honestly gave me anxiety.

If the people behind the movie (but then again, these people are responsible for Teen Titans Go, so I feel as if the movie is doomed already) could have just hired the actual video game voice actors such as Charles Martinet (Mario AND Luigi because everyone was complaining that only Chris Pratt stole Charles Martinet’s job when both Chris Pratt AND Charlie Day stole Charles Martinet’s job), Kenny James (Bowser), Samantha Kelly (Peach and Toad, even though, again, I think Jen Taylor was perfect as Peach), and other real video game voice actors were hired instead of who is casted now, I feel as if no one would be complaining and everything would be peaceful right now.

@luciaelena @impulse-cake @raven-eyed-wanderer @george-rr-binks

[anincompletelist]

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thank you @porcelainmortal for the tag for this game, and to all of the other lovely peeps who have tagged me in a variety of other games lately! I am tagging you all back below the cut and using the remainder of my spoons for today to do it akjhfgkjsgf I hope you're all well! xx

I'm fairly sure you're supposed to do this with just one wip, but I never have only ONE wip so. have fun trying to decipher which is which kdjfhkshjgf <3

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my word was: SING

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S:

Suddenly he’s typing in his password, sprawled on his back on his spacious living room floor by the fireplace. He remembers dreaming about making love in front of it, warmed by the flame, wrapped up in someone’s arms until the early morning sun rises over the pasture. He takes another shot. 

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“I need you to bite me.”

N:

“Need I remind you—yet again—that I have a vested interest in this situation as well?” Henry grits, stepping sideways at the last moment so the two men in front of him go careening into each other instead of himself. The heel of his dress shoe leaves a nasty imprint on their foreheads, but at least they’re finally out. “Not everything is about you, Alex.”

G:

God, it’s been so long since Henry’s bothered with socializing that he isn’t even sure he knows how to do it anymore with a human, much less an extraterrestrial being that’s crash landed into his yard and has subsequently restrained him inside of his home. He hangs his head, defeated. 

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[brightlotusmoon]

Did you hear that Seth Rogan is apparntely working on a reboot of Darkwing Duck ?

He what.

He WHAT.

BRB, exploding.

Darkwing Duck via fucking Seth Rogen AAAAAAAA

*sits down*

So, like, I'm very protective of the man, as you may know. I hung out with people who knew him and his wife. I've been seeing the subtle antisemitism in criticisms of Mutant Mayhem alongside the anti-black and ableist criticisms.

Seth has Tourette's. He started a foundation because his wife's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

He gets stoned for his movies. He's raunchy and gross and silly and weird and he's HUMAN. I don't want to ever watch Sausage Party but I applaud him for the audacity.

Anyway. Thank you for this.

[321spongebolt]

"Casper" CGI movie idea

While "Casper" is already planning to be revived with a live action series on Peacock, I had another idea for what DreamWorks can do with "Casper the Friendly Ghost".

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Illumination

DreamWorks Animation

DISTRIBUTOR

Universal Pictures

RATING

Probably PG

ANIMATION

The film would be entirely computer animated.

ROUGH STORY IDEAS

In terms of a movie, I don't know what it can be, let alone what it should be called, but I do have a rough basis for what can be done (which you can also read about by clicking here).

FIRST MOVIE

I was thinking for a change, Casper could befriend an emo teenager with mental health issues and suicidal thoughts. But when Casper comes into his/her life, Casper shows the emo that suicide is a bad idea and that there's so much to live for. And by the end of the film after some misunderstanding, the emo decides to jump off a building. While the emo is scared at first, the emo closes his/her eyes and just jumps for it. And in slow motion, a quiet piano score plays in the background as the emo is about to crash into the pavement, but like in the movie, "Shazam!", just when you think the emo committed suicide, we cut from black to reveal the emo floating a few inches off the concrete, only to reveal Casper saved the teenager.

SECOND MOVIE

If the first movie is successful enough to warrant a sequel, I was thinking that the emo could make a new friends who wants to be an indie filmmaker, but fails to understand the difference between reality and fiction (ex. The emo's friend thinking Casper is a hologram.)

At one point, I was also thinking Kibosh would be introduced by if the emo had found his world somehow. And when the emo meets Kibosh for the first time, he/she asks him to scare him and take his/her life away. Kibosh, even though he would want to do that reveals that he can't, because ghosts are meant to scare people, not kill them to death. Kibosh would even sympathize with the emo, who has had a tragic life, and would make the emo vow never to expose his world, or the humans would destroy all ghost life. This would serve as an important plot point if this sequel ever happened.

I don't have much of a story here, but this is all I got.

CASTING CHOICES

On one hand, I was thinking Joe Nipote and Brad Garrett could reprise their roles as Stretch and Fatso. On the other hand, I had some ideas for my own casting choices for the Ghostly Trio. For Stretch, I was thinking Max Casella (best known for voicing Daxter in the "Jak and Daxter" series) could voice him. For Stinkie, I've debated on whether Max Casella should voice him or if Lin-Manuel Miranda should voice him. And for Fatso, I was thinking John C. Reilly could voice him, or as of recently, Seth Rogen.

For the voice of Kibosh, I with thinking Josh Brolin should voice him. This is based on the fact that he can do intimidating roles like Thanos for the MCU, and I honestly think his Thanos voice would be perfect for the voice of Kibosh. And while Kibosh would still be marketed as a villain, I actually wanted him to be depicted as an anti-villain who would show a soft side to living souls who were neglected and abused (which are considered crimes or felonies in real life).

MUSIC

I would choose Danny Elfman for providing the score for the CG film series, mainly since composing horror themes is his forte.

[danielpoussart]

Disney's upcoming movie releases

Disney is releasing many movies in cinemas and on the Disney+ streaming service. Family-friendly prequels and live-action remakes of cherished cartoon masterpieces are also included. The business adjusted its release calendar for future movies from its different studios this week. To view every title coming out in 2019, scroll down!

The Little Mermaid will be remade in live-action by Disney and released in theaters the following year. The movie, which stars Halle Bailey (The Color Purple, Grown-ish), tells the tale of Ariel, a mermaid princess who strikes a bargain with a sea witch to transform into a human so she may experience life on land and fall in love.

Jonah Hauer-King plays Prince Eric in the movie, while Melissa McCarthy, who starred in Bridesmaids, plays Ursula. Oscar winner Javier Bardem plays King Triton, Daveed Diggs plays Sebastian in Hamilton, Jacob Tremblay plays Flounder in Room, and Awkwafina, the breakthrough star of Crazy Rich Asians, plays Scuttle.

Based on the adored animation classic, Aladdin will soon be a live-action film. Guy Ritchie is the director, Mena Massoud plays Aladdin, and Naomi Scott plays Jasmine. In this rough retelling of the Arabian Nights, Aladdin encounters Princess Jasmine and discovers a magic lamp (Naomi Scott). He only fully sees his value once she unintentionally releases a giant genie.

Both fresh recordings of the songs and a fantastic score by eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken are featured in the movie. It also has many DVD extras, such as an entertaining interactive 3D tour inside the Genie's lamp and a virtual trip on a magic carpet.

Disney transports you deep into the African wilderness with The Lion King, their 32nd animated film. It relates to the tale of Simba, a brave little cub who will grow up to rule the jungle. One of the all-time top-grossing animated movies is this one. It has music by Elton John and Hans Zimmer and a cast of believable animal characters.

The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau, stars Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, James Earl Jones, and Beyonce Knowles-Carter as the voice actors. The successful animated feature Finding Nemo was followed up with Finding Dory. In a quest to find her family, she reunites everyone's favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres).

Andrew Stanton, who co-wrote and directed the first, is in charge of this. Thomas Newman, a composer for movies including Skyfall, The Help, and WALL-E, also contributed music to the movie. This tale of a fish in and out of water is full of emotional weight and recognizable characters, even though the plot doesn't attempt to rival Finding Nemo in terms of brains. Disney Pixar is a resounding winner.

Captain Jack, a down-on-his-luck character, senses the winds of misfortune blowing his way in Disney's newest swashbuckling adventure forcefully. He must now travel a dangerous sea in search of the fabled Trident of Poseidon, assisted by a clever and attractive astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy. As the swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp makes a comeback. His new castmates include Captain Barbossa, played by Geoffrey Rush, and the villainous Captain Salazar, played by Javier Bardem.

The first trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX, the ninth and final movie in the Skywalker saga, has been made available by Disney. The movie recounts the Resistance's struggle against the Galactic Empire and the malevolent First Order under the command of Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Domhnall Gleeson, Billy Dee Williams, and Naomi Ackie, a debutant, appear in the movie. J.J. Abrams, who also authored the script, is directing it.

One of the most well-liked attractions in Disney history is The Haunted Mansion. It is a classic and has been around for over 50 years. In 2023, a movie adaptation of the attraction is scheduled to debut, starring LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Jared Leto, and Jamie Lee Curtis, among others.

The narrative centers on Gabbie (Dawson), a single mother who moves into a mansion in New Orleans and learns about the building's extensive history of hauntings. She asks a priest, a historian, and tour guides to help exorcise her house.

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG BOYCHIK

In theaters for Thanksgiving (a safe and Happy Thanksgiving, by the way!):

The Fabelmans--It begins with little Sammy Fabelman being taken to his first movie, in New Jersey in 1952. A cautious, slightly fretful 7-year-old, Sammy (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord) is not sure if he's up for the experience; he's heard the people onscreen are gigantic, and the idea worries him. So his adoring parents attempt to reassure him, from opposite sides: his practical-minded, scientific dad Burt (Paul Dano) explains how film works technically, while his whimsical pixie of a mom Mitzi (Michelle Williams) says that movies are beautiful dreams.

The dream in question turns out to be DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, and the big train wreck scene hits Sammy's psyche like...well, like a speeding train. He tries to re-create it with the Lionel train set he gets for Hannukah, and later he films his re-creations with a home movie camera.

As you probably know, this is Steven Spielberg's autobiographical coming-of-age movie, scripted by Tony Kushner from a synopsis they worked up together, and made by the usual gang: filmed by Janusz Kaminski with a score by John Williams. The episodes that follow depict the family's life as Burt, a computer genius, chases work in the budding industry from New Jersey to Arizona, where Sammy makes war epics, to northern California, where he encounters anti-Semitic bullies.

Mitzi, who gave up a career as a concert pianist to be a wife and mom, shows signs of restlessness and depression, except when she's interacting with Burt's best friend Bennie (Seth Rogen), or when she impulsively buys a monkey, who she names Bennie. All of these strands are filtered through the growth of the relationship between Sam (Gabriel LaBelle as an older kid) and the art and craft of moviemaking.

Even though he's one of the most commercially successful popular artists in the world, I think that Spielberg has, in a sense, been critically underappreciated for decades. After the initial, unprecedented splash he made with Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark, he went through a slump in the late '80s and early '90s and cranked out some real bummers; cloying, heavy-handed, trying-too-hard stuff like Hook and Always that made him seem like a phony.

I'm not sure that many critics noticed the way he rediscovered and deepened and sharpened his style with the films he's made in recent years, even when their scripts have sometimes been uneven. Works that range with seemingly equal ease from crisp yet almost invisible technique like The Post to Hitchcockian panache like Bridge of Spies to flashy showmanship like West Side Story suggest an artist who has matured, and who might have something interesting to say about his own life.

And so he does, by turning his gaze outward. Sammy is likable enough, but he's not a rich or idiosyncratic protagonist. What's important is his point of view on Burt and Mitzi. Spielberg here dramatizes the anger and terror, the sense of betrayal, that can result when you begin to see your parents--as Sammy does through his footage of them, while editing home movies--not as stock figures in your story but as complex characters in their own.

And Dano and Williams create vivid, warm portraits of imperfect but unconditionally loving people. So does Rogen, and so does Judd Hirsch in a showcase role as a crazy visionary uncle who tells Sammy hard prophetic truths. So do Jeannie Berlin and Robin Bartlett as the Grandmas, and so do the excellent kids who play the younger sisters. So for that matter, does the monkey.

Not everything in The Fabelmans comes off. There's maybe a scene or two more than is needed of Williams sadly playing sad piano, and the stuff with the bullies, who look like they stepped out of Nazi poster art, feels psychologically confused and uneasy. A scene in which Sammy has a fraught confrontation with a bully he's tried to flatter through moviemaking is potentially interesting for what it hints at about the director's willingness to use his art calculatingly, but it thrashes around and fails, somehow, to come into dramatic focus.

On the other hand, the scenes involving Sammy's early romantic encounters are livened up by the hilarious Chloe East as Monica, his both religiously ecstatic and sexually avid girlfriend, who sees Jesus as one more teen heartthrob. While chaste in the typical Spielbergian manner, they offer a peek at the character's, and the director's, bemused reaction to Christianity.

The movie closes with a depiction of Spielberg's familiar anecdote about his first brush with Hollywood greatness. It allows him to end the film with a self-deprecating "meta" joke that also slyly reminds us that what we've just seen, however honestly intended, is nonetheless a carefully curated official story.

[anothermillennialreviewer]

Babes: Mindless Viewing

Written by Luke Barnes Summary A young woman, Ilana Glazer, gets pregnant and has to deal with it. So Glazer’s horrible views on Gaza aside, she repeats all the same anti-semitic views/lies as a lot of other left wing celebrities but goes hey it’s okay because I am Jewish when it is just an effort in self-hate and fake allyship just like Seth Rogen, this film does have some redeemable…

[courtneysmovieblog]

“Super Mario Bros” beats odds

Let’s just skip to the elephant in the room: Chris Pratt…wasn’t terrible.

Yes, he does the fake Italian accent as part of a plumbing commercial he and Luigi (voiced by Charlie Day) make in the beginning of the movie, and it’s as cringeworthy as we anticipated. I will never understand why, when they had the REAL Mario voice (Charles Martinet RIGHT THERE), and they just have h8m as an in-joke cameo. What a waste.

But once you get past it, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a lot of fun.

True, the bar was set pretty low after the infamous ‘90s live-action movie. Still, the animation is great, the jokes are funny, and there are enough nostalgic Easter eggs to satiate any video game buff. Plus, Jack Black as Bowser is every bit as awesome as everyone says he was. The movie owes its success to him.

The rest of the casting is okay. Charlie Day was perfect as Luigi. The only real misfire was Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong. Look, I like him and all—but really?! Out of all the actors, they pick him?

Please don’t believe all the commentators claiming that the movie was successful because it was “anti-woke.” That is completely ridiculous—those guys were probably the same ones throwing tantrums because they saw Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) wearing pants and kicking butt in the trailer.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a success because Mario was a huge part of our childhoods, and despite our fears that Chris Pratt would ruin it, it’s a cute, entertaining movie with just the right amount of nostalgia to leave us wanting more. And considering the box office records it broke, I have a feeling a sequel won’t be the only Nintendo movie we get in the future—your time is coming, Legend of Zelda!

7 out of 10

[newswireml]

Sorry, Seth Rogen: good film reviews wouldn’t mean much if bad ones weren’t allowed | Movies#Seth #Rogen #good #film #reviews #wouldnt #bad #werent #allowed #Movies

We’ve now had expressions of protest from both the violent and non-violent wings of the anti-bad-review movement. The Hanover State Opera’s ballet director Marco Goecke confronted the Frankfurter Allgemeine ballet critic Wiebke Hüster in the theatre foyer and smeared dog excrement in her face. Now the comic and movie actor Seth Rogen has shared his views on criticism in an interview with Steven…

[wafact]

Sorry, Seth Rogen: good film reviews wouldn’t mean much if bad ones weren’t allowed | Movies

We’ve now had expressions of protest from both the violent and non-violent wings of the anti-bad-review movement. The Hanover State Opera’s ballet director Marco Goecke confronted the Frankfurter Allgemeine ballet critic Wiebke Hüster in the theatre foyer and smeared dog excrement in her face. Now the comic and movie actor Seth Rogen has shared his views on criticism in an interview with Steven…

[eagletek]

Sorry, Seth Rogen: good film reviews wouldn’t mean much if bad ones weren’t allowed | Movies

We’ve now had expressions of protest from both the violent and non-violent wings of the anti-bad-review movement. The Hanover State Opera’s ballet director Marco Goecke confronted the Frankfurter Allgemeine ballet critic Wiebke Hüster in the theatre foyer and smeared dog excrement in her face. Now the comic and movie actor Seth Rogen has shared his views on criticism in an interview with Steven…

[msclaritea]

We haven't had to deal with this clown for a couple years, after Twitter finally got rid of some of the Disinfo Bots. Tariq Nasheed is another paid off Russian mouthpiece. All it takes is a few minutes to Google. Apparently today is 'Africans Against Black Americans Day'. This goes on nonstop, pitting different communities against each other, for various agenda. Below is an article by Talib Kweli, describing where ADOS originated. Big shock...it wasn't from the black community:

"In January of 2018, Steve Bannon, the architect of Breitbart.com’s alt right rise to the Trump White House, a man who told a gathering of white nationalists in France to wear the title of racist as a badge of honor, was fired from his job at Sirius XM after Jewish actor Seth Rogen cancelled Sirius XM appearances in protest of Bannon’s hateful rhetoric. Many of Sirius XM’s hosts of color, including Reverend Mark Thompson who hosts a show on Sirius XM called Make It Plain, were very vocal in their opposition to Sirius XM’s decision to give Steve Bannon a platform. Today, Mark Thompson’s job at Sirius XM seems to be in question due to a physical altercation he had in Newark. When I look at the details of the events leading up to the altercation, it seems to me that Sirius XM may be in danger of making the wrong decision again. Let me back up…

The Reverend Mark Thompson has been a leading activist journalist in the black community for over 25 years. His show, Make It Plain, which was the only show of its kind to address black issues nationally for years, was the first talk show on Sirius XM, premiering back in 2001. He used his show to broadcast live from Occupy Wall Street and he has been on remote wherever ground zero for the movement was, from Sanford, Florida to Ferguson, Missouri. He’s been arrested for protesting on behalf of the people and he joined Dick Gregory, Maxine Waters and journalist Gary Webb in exposing the CIA’s role in the crack cocaine epidemic. This brother has certainly paid his dues.

I was only marginally aware of Mark Thompson’s pro reparations work before both him and I started being harassed by a new hashtag movement bubbling online called ADOS, which stands for American Descendants Of Slaves. I saw him on Joy Ann Reid’s MSNBC program being described as a member of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) due to his research and support of the concept of reparations for African Americans who are descended from enslaved people.

Talib Kweli 2000 Seasons 1997

Like Mark Thompson, I have always been pro reparations. In my first solo song ever, “2000 Seasons” from 1997, I rap “they call it reparations but they call it extortion.” In 2004, on Kanye West’s (that’s pre Trump Kanye btw) “We Can Make It Better”, I rapped “reparations, how you calculate the amount to be paid, you try to imagine America without the slaves.” I am of the belief that African Americans absolutely deserve reparations and I’ve worked closely throughout my career with a pro reparations community activist group called the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. However, none of that mattered to a woman named Yvette Carnell, a founder of this ADOS movement, when she decided to wander over to my mentions to aggressively critique me for writing what amounted to an anti Trump tweet. The ADOS position is that we should not vote for any democrats unless they promise to support reparations. They don’t hold the GOP to the same standard, and even though Yvette Carnell used to support the Sanders campaign in 2016, she was very upset at me implying that I like Bernie Sanders better than Donald Trump.

I was taken aback when I received such a vile, personal attack on my character and my life’s work from what seemed at first glance to be a pro-black black woman. It was clear to me that I supported a plan for reparations in the tweet she was critical of, so why the attack? I had never heard of ADOS or Yvette Carnell before I wrote the tweet, so why did she take a tweet that wasn’t written to her or about her so personal? Why did she assume I was talking about her and her movement? I believe that's called “hit dogs hollering.” Wouldn’t it have been more prudent and pragmatic to share her plan with me, rather than dismiss me wholesale as some “loud and wrong black celebrity” in our first exchange ever?

As bad as Yvette’s Carnell’s initial unsolicited tweet to me was, her followers were way worse. They collectively decided I was a Haitian immigrant (weird flex) as a way to justify their dismissal of my position. I was born in Brooklyn. My mother was born in New Jersey and my father was born in Queens. We’ve never been Haitian. It became apparent to me very quickly that ADOS was an anti black immigrant movement when scores of ADOS accounts began to harass me, an American born citizen, for being an immigrant. I was called a “coon”, a “sell out”, I was told to “go back to Haiti”. When I pointed out that Yvette Carnell made a YouTube video entitled “Pan Africanism Is Dead” I was told to “go back to Africa”. One ADOS person threatened to shoot me and several others, including a verified twitter user named Junot Joyner who once lost on American Idol 11 years ago, threatened to show up where I perform to physically assault me. These bigoted and sometimes violently worded attacks came daily, by the hundreds, for almost a month straight. Supposedly pro-black ADOS folks were using the same exact hateful rhetoric that white supremacists have used on me for years in digital spaces. Something was fishy.

The strategy for ADOS to get reparations seemed to be attacking famous (mostly) black people for two reasons; first, for not being black and American enough according to a standard set by ADOS and secondly, for being anti Donald Trump. Yvette Carnell’s partner in the founding fo ADOS is a former Los Angeles county district attorney named Antonio Moore who spends his free time making YouTube videos that critique filmmaker Jordan Peele for hiring Africans that haven’t been born in America as the leads for his movies. ADOS folks online constantly tweet about taking down Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders, Roland Martin, Angela Rye, and every other prominent public critic of Donald Trump. They say that they only go after Democrats because Democrats have taken the black vote for granted. While that statement can be proven true, ADOS fails to realize that the results of only going after Democrats is handing a free pass to the GOP. When you raise that question, far too many ADOS folks begin to defend Trump and double down on their attacks of all Trumps opposition. This is a recipe for failure in my view.

#ADOS co-founder Yvette Carnell wearing a MAGA hat in a now deleted YouTube video No, it’s not photo shopped either so don’t even try that.

When I began peeling back the layers of ADOS to try and understand why they seemed so focused on attacking immigrants and all anti Trump black people, even clearly pro reparations anti Trump black people, what I found was startling. Largely due to the impeccable research of a twitter user named @ImaniKushan I began to see that Yvette Carnell, who’s twitter name is @breakingbrown, seemed to use her YouTube channel to push right wing, pro Trump, anti immigration propaganda. She has videos titled “Why Is Everyone So Afraid of Steve Bannon” and “Trump Is Right About Black Poverty.” There was a video of her wearing a MAGA hat, which she deleted once we called her out for wearing it. She has tweets about how Trump looks so presidential on TV, and about how Trump is correct about birthright citizenship. She uses her Twitter account to push anti immigration propaganda, and she uses nazi slogans like “blood and soil.” She wrote an essay on her Breaking Brown blog entitled “Black Lawmakers Shouldn’t Be Out Here Calling Trump Illegitimate.” Despite her denials of her support for Trump, the evidence is clear that in action Yvette Carnell is pushing the GOP���s message.

As damning as all of these facts about Yvette Carnell’s actions are, her intentions were not clear to me until I found out that she is an admittedly proud board member of an anti immigrant organization that deceptively calls itself Progressives For Immigration Reform. In case you are someone who doesn’t understand that progressives generally don’t fight for immigration reform, let be break this down for you. PFIR was designated as a hate group by the ADL and the SPLC because it is funded by John Tanton, a white nationalist well known for creating right wing think tanks that are specifically designed to get minority voters to align with GOP supported anti immigration policy. Now I understood why everyone following Yvette Carnell and supporting her movement were so hateful to immigrants. That was by design. Thats the whole point. ADOS is an insidious right wing funded anti immigration hashtag movement cloaked in the righteous language of reparations.

What most ADOS folks say when I present the evidence that Yvette Carnell is a fraud, is to look at their website, ados101.com. On this site, created by ADOS co founder Antonio Moore, Ronald Reagan is celebrated as being helpful to the black community. Donald Trump is celebrated as being helpful to black communities. Barack Obama, the first black president, is critiqued as not being helpful to black communities. I have no issues with critique of Obama. But when critique of Obama is buttressed in with celebration of Reagan and Trump, that's clearly right wing propaganda. Also, reparations isn’t mentioned until the very last paragraph of their agenda, on their pro reparations website. This is suspect to me, When I pair these facts with the fact that Antonio Moore once said that due to his genetic make up that he is culturally closer to a white American than an African, I can conclude that the ADOS movement is being run by charlatans. I mean, if Antonio Moore is more like a European/American than he is African, why is he even entitled to reparations? Things that don’t seem to make sense, usually don’t.

“I’m 5% Nigerian, I’m 7 to 10% British, I have a piece of me that’s Scandinavian, I’m 30% Benin, I’m 20% the Congo and a mix of other things, I’m 1% Native American. Looking beyond native black American partnerships, ADOS partnerships… how is it within race to marry a hundred percent Nigerian if I’m only 5% Nigerian, but out of race to marry a white person that may be 20% British? Has our technology, Ancestry.com, 23andme, tore a whole in the whole concept of race? I would argue yea. There was a great point made, that led to a good discussion, but I disagree with the point, where a woman came on my channel and said “when people procreate with people that look like them and share their culture, in this case, you would have more culture in common, being an African American, 400 years in America, never been to Africa, with someone white, and you also may look more like the white person because of the mixture.” — direct quote from ADOS founder Antonio Moore.

Speak for yourself Antonio. What a word salad. There’s a lot to unpack there, and its all self hatred. Is this your hero?

The first notable mention of ADOS on any mainstream platform that is not YouTube was when Rev Mark Thompson critiqued their “take down the democrats at all cost” strategy on Joy Reid’s MSNBC program. This earned him the title of ADOS public enemy number one, with Joy Ann Reid coming in at a close second for even having Mark on. Since Mark appeared on that program, the attacks on his character and life works for ADOS have been nonstop and daily. I may have been the only person to get it worse. Like me, he received threats of violence and death from ADOS folks due to his criticism of their tactics. In my experience, these threats don’t always remain online. In the ten plus years I’ve been tweeting, twitter users have posed real threats to me more than once. A bitter racist rapper named MC Funky J showed up at a show once to fight me for being anti racist, that didn’t work out well for him. Another bitter racist rapper named Bekay showed up to my show, took pictures in front of the venue, and then lied and told his Facebook following that he chased me around the venue. A violent lawyer from Texas named Jason Lee Van Dyke threatened to murder my fans and I for a full weekend. He was later named head of the racist gang the Proud Boys and then arrested for filing false police reports. Being a public figure who speaks out unapologetically can have actual physically dangerous consequences that you must be on guard for. If it wasn’t, far more public figures would speak up and speak out on behalf of the people.

After speaking at a Newark community event put on by my friend and mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, Rev Mark Thompson was aggressively confronted about his criticisms of ADOS by a black man calling himself Africa, which is ironic due to the ADOS anti Pan African stance. Africa, was upset with how Mark Thompson spoke about ADOS on MSNBC, and he wanted some answers. The exchange got more tense when Mark Thompson decided he had enough and tried to reclaim his time. Africa wasn’t trying to hear that and began to insult Mark’s work and career. Sensing a threat, Mark got into fight mode in order to protect himself and those around him. As someone who has been approached violently by strangers in the street who disagree with things I’ve said online and think that I must obey them or face consequences, I understand this fighting instinct. I cannot speak on the legalities of Mark’s situation, but I can definitely relate to the instinct. I probably would’ve responded the same way the minister did. If some stranger comes up to me being rude and aggressive all in my space, they may get hit. I’ll deal with the consequences later but what I won’t do is wait until I’m assaulted by some stranger to go into protection mode. I hope that Sirius XM examines the full context of why Mark Thompson was involved in a physical altercation.

When I first started getting harassed by ADOS, I told myself I wasn’t going to write any essays about ADOS because they didn’t deserve it. The ADOS troll accounts have been nastier and more disturbing than any mass trolling Ive received and I’ve been trolled by EVERY major figure in the white supremacist movement, from Ben Shapiro to Gavin McInnes to David Duke. That’s how I know ADOS is not organic. They are more organized and relentless than most troll operations. Hearing that Mark Thompson, who has been a soldier for black communities, may lose a job over being harassed online and in person by ADOS folks made me want to write this as a warning. One, as warning to pro reparations folks in our community, to stay far away from this hateful anti immigration movement. Two, as a warning to ADOS that we are on your head. You came after the wrong black man, and I won’t stop until you are over.

ADOS folks will try to tell you that if you diss ADOS you are dissing all Black Americans ever. That is a lie. I’ve been a black man from Brooklyn my entire life and I never heard of that goofy hashtag until they came after me a month ago. It will never define my experience as a black man in America. I don’t come from slaves, I come from an enslaved people. There’s a difference. They will try to tell you that they have pushed the issue of reparations to the forefront and nobody before them has. These are lies that disrespect our ancestors and leaders whose shoulders we stand on. Sheila Jackson, along with Ron Daniels and John Conyers, introduced the HR40 reparations bill in 1989 and have pushed for it every year since. Organizations like NAARC (National African American Reparations Commission) and N’COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America) have been doing the work for years. I used to sell The Debt by Randall Robinson at Nkiru when I worked there 20 years ago. Since then Robinson has founded TransAfrica, a pro reparations advocacy group. Scholars from Dr. Claud Anderson to Darrick Hamilton have advocated for reparations without needing align with white supremacists like ADOS founders Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore have chosen to do. By making reparations a “hold your own nuts” divisive issue amongst black voters, ADOS will usher in a GOP victory for Trump in 2020. And if you think attacking other black people who also deserve reparations from their respective countries is going to get Donald Trump or any GOP run government to give you reparations, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. ADOS is a danger to actual black activists who have been active in the fight for reparations..."

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